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Connecticut soon will get $36 million of a $1.37 billion legal settlement with Standard & Poor's, resolving allegations that the credit ratings agency misled investors in rating mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Connecticut initiated the legal action against S&P, but it isn't the only state to get settlement money. Eighteen other states and the District of Columbia, which joined with Connecticut and the U.S. Justice Department in the civil litigation, will get shares that will go to their general funds, pension systems and state programs. In many of the states, attorneys general will get to keep some of the money to finance other...

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Connecticut soon will get $36 million of a $1.37 billion legal settlement with Standard & Poor's, resolving allegations that the credit ratings agency misled investors in rating mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis....

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